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Algiers · Beat 250 · permalink

Private office

1:24:56–1:26:04 Registered 1938

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 6 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:25:231:25:23Frame at 1:25:571:25:57

Play from 1:24:56 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 105 · shots 549–550. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Fox (named at t:84:56): man with dark hair, wearing a dark jacket and a cap, visible in frame:1 and frame:2 visible, audible
  • Pepe (named at t:85:28): man with dark hair, wearing a dark jacket, visible in frame:1 lying on a bed or couch visible, audible
  • Carlos (named at t:85:48): not visible mentioned
  • Kavlos (named at t:85:51): not visible mentioned
  • Quiro (named at t:84:56): not visible mentioned
  • Regis (named at t:84:56): not visible mentioned
Seen happening
  • Fox is visible in frame:1, speaking to Pepe who is lying down. [frame:1]
  • Fox is visible in frame:2, smiling slightly while speaking. [frame:2]
Also said
“Oh, you're only half an informant. The other half is all right.” 85:28 · “What about, Kavlos?” 85:51
Seen
bed or couch [frame:1], cap [frame:1], dark jacket [frame:1, frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confessional; themes: betrayal, guilt, consequences of actions; style notes: close-up shots, high contrast lighting, black and white film stock, static camera

Two men are in a dimly lit interior; one confesses to delivering a letter he later learned was from the police, calling himself an informer. The other man reacts with disgust and then asks about a third person, Kavlos, who has been taken by police.

“Ever got smoke, Fox? It's all right. You can talk. In fact, I'm ashamed of myself.” 84:56 · “I'm an informer.” 84:56 automatic transcript, may be wrong

The record

No renewal found An automated finding, not a verdict. A renewal would have appeared in the Copyright Office's renewal registrations 27 to 29 years after the term began. Those volumes are loaded and our parse of them found no matching renewal. If that is right, a work published 1931–1963 that was not renewed entered the public domain at the end of its 28th year; the volumes are OCR of old print, and the method page reports how often the parse has been found to miss one. Evidence dossier. The finding concerns the US copyright record for the film; it is not clearance for any use, and this page's annotation is machine output.

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Frame from Algiers (1938) at 1:25:23 (passage 1:24:56–1:26:04); US record: No renewal found

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